Fight leads to $153,000 in pot in Hesperia

HESPERIA • Police found more than $153,000 worth of marijuana in a home in Hesperia Tuesday morning resulting in the arrest of Candace Parsons, 25, of Hesperia, on charges of cultivation of marijuana.

San Bernardino County Sheriff's deputies Frank Hardin and Derek Stokes responded to a report of a fight in the 8900 block of I Avenue in Hesperia. Several tenants reported a fight between four subjects banging each other's head against the wall, according to sheriff 's spokeswoman Roxanne Walker.

When the deputies got to the house one of the people in the house opened the door and that is when they smelled a strong odor of marijuana and could see an open crate of dried marijuana in plain view, she said.

Walker said in the statement that police searched the house and located more marijuana.